The tapes would then be sold for around $250-500 each. US, European, and Russian cinema would play a prominent role in his history. Half of the programs would be dedicated to silent cinema and the other half would be on sound.
Within it, Godard imagined ten one-hour video tapes being produced at the cost of around $60,000-$100,000. As Michael Witt fastidiously documents, the project interested Godard since the mid-’70s when he produced a hand-made 20 page collage vaguely conceptualizing its origins. The release of Jean-Luc Godard’s Historie(s) du cinéma on DVD in 2011 became something of a sensation in part because it took Godard over 20 years to complete.
